Tag: Beacon Bar

• Love at the Beacon Bar

  I spend most of my time alone…here in New York City, a city of 8.4 million people.  Sometimes I get very lonely and sometimes I feel forgotten.  None of this is Mariam’s fault.  She works very hard at Mount Sinai…slowly but steadily toward total retirement which should happen sometime after the middle of May.  Sometime…

  patrickjegan

  February 17, 2017

  Blogging, Love, New York City, non-fiction, Objects of Beauty, Time

  Beacon Bar, love, NYC, Valentine’s Day

• The Man in the Crowd

  [My photo: Not on the night of the party] I was surprised that the Beacon Bar didn’t just close for night to provide the space for the private function.  Only the bar itself was open to regular customers.  The rest of the space was ‘reserved’ for a party…or whatever it was.  And a party it…

  patrickjegan

  January 27, 2017

  Blogging, Everyday Events, Memories, New York City, non-fiction

  Beacon Bar, conversation at parties, crowds, loneliness, office parties, wallflowers

• Remorse And A Frozen Bottle Of Poland Springs: My Dinner With Chuck

  Perhaps some of you remember a rather obscure film from several decades ago called My Dinner with Andre.  It was a really intense movie about two guys who have a conversation over dinner on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A two-hour movie about two guys talking over dinner…’nap time’, you may think…but the film…

  patrickjegan

  January 19, 2017

  Blogging, Childhood, Friendship, Holding onto the Past, Memories, New York City, Real Personal History

  Beacon Bar, classmates, NYC, reunions, Upper West Side